Opera Mini For iPhone Could Be Coming Soon To App Store
Norwegian web browser developer Opera has revealed that the company’s mobile browser application for the iPhone is just “weeks” away from submission to the App Store for approval.
According to sources, the new Opera Mini iPhone app was likely to be six times faster than iPhone’s native Mobile Safari web browser.
Speaking about the development at the South By Southwest festival at Austin, Opera spokesperson Thomas Ford said, “I can’t positively say the time frame, but I can say it’s very soon“, indicating that it would realistically take a few weeks.
Opera had given a preview of their upcoming iPhone application at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. As we had noted back then, the server side processing coupled with caching of compressed binary format files made the rendered webpages nearly 90% smaller and hence provided much shorter page loading times.
However, it is unclear if Apple shall approve Opera’s application. Though Opera insists that the company is hopeful that their app shall be accepted into the App Store as they believe that they’re following Apple’s rules.
What do you think? Will Opera Mobile iPhone app make it to the App Store? Let us know what you think.
[via | iPhone Hacks ]
